Breaking things was Re: Binary Files

[Kimbro Staken <ks...@xmldatabases.org>]

On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 10:06  AM, Fernando Padilla wrote:
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> I have another question.  Which version of Xindice will we be able to
> break things to fix things?  Like the UTF-8 patch, that somepeople were
> scared to check in because it would break old installations, and doing
> the proper BinaryResource patch, which would break old installations, but
> fix all new ones...
>

We're already breaking things with the UTF-8 stuff that will be in 1.1. At 
this point my opinion is that it is more important to get some real 
forward momentum going in development then it is to worry about breaking 
things. So it you or anyone else has ideas lets start moving forward with 
them. Also we really need to add some new committers, the current set has 
gone very inactive (unfortunately Tom and myself included). So if people 
want to see things like BinaryResource support then let's see some code. 
Things like that are a lot more likely to get in if there's code to drive 
the discussion. Of course I suspect a working patch for BinaryResource 
would have made it in without any major discussion. I probably would have 
asked the list if anyone else wants it, and it would have been pretty 
clear that people do.

Kimbro Staken
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